In a message dated 11/5/99 4:24:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, facethecrowd@hotmail.com writes: > And Lauren, I am also a child of divorced parents. My fatehr tells me > stories about how he saw my alcoholic mother with a strange man at the movie > > theatre a month after they divorced. This must have been hard for him. > What hurt us was the fact that my father hated my mother and mother hated my > > father. They couldn't speak with each other. When I was in Grade seven and > > eight, I was sure that my father was goingto kill us kids because of the > alimony payments. Everyone gets a little fucked up from a divorce. Dozens > of eggs get cracked. It fucking sucks, in other words. But the party > responsible has to ensure that these damages are kept to a minimum. I have > plans and so does she. She's an independent person but being loved helps > her and it does me, too. I'm sorry I brought this up. > don't be so blind it isn't as simple as "keeping the damages to a minimum" -Lauren-